msgid "Know your System Administrator"
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msgid "There are four major species of Unix sysad:"
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"The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced "
"into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne "
"shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL."
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"The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a "
"harridan ex-secretary) who has been forced into system administration."
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"The MANIAC. Usually an aging cracker who discovered that neither the "
"Mossad nor Cuba are willing to pay a living wage for computer espionage. "
"Fell into system administration; occasionally approaches major competitors "
"with indesp schemes."
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"The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer "
"selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, "
"morphodites, and old COBOL programmers."
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msgid "IDIOT:"
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msgid "SITUATION: Excessive CPU usage"
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"TECHNICAL THUG: Writes a suite of scripts to monitor processes, "
"maintain a database of CPU usage, identify processes more than a standard "
"deviation over the norm, and renice offending processes. Places script in "
"cron. Ends up renicing the production database into oblivion, bringing "
"operations to a grinding halt, much to the delight of the xtrek freaks."
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msgid "IDIOT: Quayle."
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"TECHNICAL FASCIST: Hacks kernel & writes a horde of scripts to "
"prevent folk from ever using more than their fair share of system "
"resources. Resulting overhead and load brings system to its knees."
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